Coroner

Duties and responsibilities:

What a corners do are direct activities such as autopsies. They also do pathological and toxicological analyses, and inquests relating to the investigation of deaths occurring within a legal jurisdiction to determine cause of death or to fix responsibility for accidental, violent, or unexplained deaths. Coroners also work with police detectives. Depending on their background, educational accomplishments, jurisdictional area they serve, their title, or their elected position, a coroner may be a Medical Legal Investigator.Or they can be Medical Examiners, Forensic Pathologist, Elected County Coroner/Chief  Medical Examiner, District Medical Examiner, Deputy Coroner, County Coroner, Coroner/Medical Examiner, Chief Deputy Coroner. There are many positions a coroner can be in.

Salary:

$65,000- $77,520

Education:

Medical school

8 years of school after high school

Demand for this profession:

Vacancies for this career have increased by 21.68 percent nationwide in that time, with an average growth of 3.61 percent per year. Demand for Coroners is expected to go up, with an expected 137,000 new jobs filled by 2018. This represents an annual increase of 8.39 percent over the next few years.

Reflection

I want to be a coroner because i want to help people. I know people are going to say well how are you going to help people by opening their body. I'm going to help people by telling their family of what the person died of. So that way the family will know to prevent any other family member from doing bad stuff. And i also want to see the inside of a body.